In Israel today is Yom HaShoa, the Holocaust remembrance day. It’s a solemn day in the Jewish State and around the world, meant to remember the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. The UN Conference on Racism and Genocide, a well known anti-Israel forum, found it appropriate to invite Iran’s holocaust-denying, genocidal president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to give the key note speech.
Ahmedinejad, the only head of state in attendance, said that Israel was “founded on the pretext of Jewish suffering” and that it is the “most cruel and racist regime.”
Over 20 European nations dramatically walked out of the meeting during Ahmedinejad’s vile speech (video). 9 countries, including the United States and Israel had already chosen to boycott the conference, specifically because of its anti-Semitic slant. This conference was based on a document drafted eight years ago in South Africa which equates Zionism to racism.
It was reckless and irresponsible for the Obama Administration to have waited until this weekend before officially announcing that the US would again boycott the conference, after the speech the US asked Iran “to end its horrible rhetoric.” The UK did not boycott the conference, but upon walking out a spokesman for Gordon Brown said the that the British government “unreservedly condemn the Iranian President’s offensive and inflammatory remarks.”
People shouted at Ahmedinejad from the balcony during his speech, and some protesters wearing rainbow-colored clown wigs threw things at him (video).
Suggestion to the people staying at the UN conference: Talk about the ongoing racist genocide in Darfur. Have they not waited long enough for international assistance? Or, is it just easier to trash on Israel than deal with a real genocide?
Happy Hitler’s birthday to you Ahmedinejad. To the normal people out there, this is why the US doesn’t have relations with Iran and other hateful, tyrannical regimes.
